Thao Quotes

#1. Just being the seeker, somebody whose open to spiritual enlightenment, is in itself the important thing and it's the reward for being a seeker in this world.

Walter Isaacson

#2. It's really easy to not be satisfied with your work, or people, or anything, but I really embrace the idea of not having to want [anything]. Not because you're denying yourself anything, but because it [everything] is already there.

Thao Nguyen

#3. Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.

Billy Graham

#4. I feel I must acknowledge that gay people are, generally speaking, funnier, more self-sufficient, and better in crises and I should step aside and let them handle the business whenever it comes up.

Thao Nguyen

#5. I still play Strat, I don't know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.

Ike Turner

#6. I have long said that there is only one rule that I follow in life and all the rest are meant to be broken. That rule is "the golden rule"-treat others as you wish to be treated.

Jer Johns

#7. Because I grew up trapped in the suburbs 8 miles outside of D.C. and I've never seen what people who live in D.C. look like.

Thao Nguyen

#8. I try not to read reviews because I know how sensitive I am and how debilitating it is and how it follows me around. If they're bad, you feel terrible, you feel worthless, no matter if you think they're wrong - and if they're good, it feels cheap and sleazy because you went looking for it.

Thao Nguyen

#9. I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

Elle Fanning

#10. I think that the activism I've become involved with informs and enhances my life in a lot of ways, and definitely career-wise. This record wouldn't exist [without that activism], for one.

Thao Nguyen

#11. I've always had this vision that the touring lifestyle is so unsustainable. But I have faith that I can do it, and I don't become a victim of my job or my work. And I can remove my self-worth from what I make and how many people show up.

Thao Nguyen

#12. When you guys win, you get to keep your money. When we win, we take your money.

Cy Thao

#13. It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled by obvious thugs and crooks.

Thomas Pogge